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Lyrics
1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my
heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for
herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of
hosts, my King, and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still
praising thee. Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are
the ways of them.
6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain
also filleth the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion
appeareth before God.
8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
Selah.
9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine
anointed.
10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather
be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents
of wickedness.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace
and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk
uprightly.
12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2. John Gill's
Exposition of the Bible - http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/psalm/gill/psalm84.htm
3.
Seventh-day Adventist
Bible Commentary - Vol.3 pgs. 827,828
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About Psalm 84 |
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To the chief Musician upon
Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. The Targum
renders it here, as there, "to praise upon the harp that
was brought from Gath;" and of the sons of Korah, It
was, very probably, written by David; to whom the Targum,
on Psalm 84:8, ascribes it; though it does not bear his
name, the spirit it breathes, and the language in which
it is written, show it to be his. The inscription of it,
in the Syriac version, is, "for the sons of Korah, when
David meditated to go out of Zion, to worship in the
house of God: and it is called a prophecy concerning
Christ, and concerning his church," as it undoubtedly
is.2 |
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Music
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The
music was composed in
2006
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Synopsis of
Psalm 84 |
Psalm 84 was composed by
David, the Lord's "anointed", at a time when he was exiled
from Jerusalem. It is a passionate lyrical expression of
devotion and love for the house of Jehovah and His worship.
The psalm seems to describe the blessedness of those who
dwell in the sacred precincts (vs. 1-4, 9-11); the
blessedness of those who make pilgrimages to the sanctuary
(vs. 5-8); and the blessedness of those who, deprived of the
privilege of actually worshiping in God's house,
nevertheless put their trust in God. The pathos of this
tender poem is enhanced by the elegiac rhythm in which the
Hebrew lines are cast. The sentiments of this exquisite
sacred lyric are more than personal: they are the deepest
sentiments of every child of God who, deprived of the
privilege of communion with fellow Christians, has ever
longed for fellowship with his brethren in the corporate
worship of God. Psalm 84 may be compared with Psalm 42. It
is said that Isabel Alison and Marion Harris, Scottish
Covenanters, sang the words of Psalm 84 to the tune
"Martyrs" as they went to the scaffold.3
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